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SPOTTED: The Lake Boone Chicken
by Allison Atkinson
photographs by Brantley Atkinson
Nancy Hight has been dressing a bronze chicken statue at the foot of her Raleigh driveway every morning for more than 10 years.
She can't tell you the date it all began, but she does remember why. She was preparing her home for a wedding shower, and wanted guests to be able to easily identify her driveway. Already a collector of whimsical yard art, Hight knew when she spotted the chicken that it would do the trick. She fashioned some wedding attire for the bird, dressed it for the shower, and a tradition was born.
If you have met Nancy, this would not strike you as unusual.
Nor would the variety of costumes she makes for her chicken, which change with the day, season, and weather, and often respond to current events. The chicken regularly dons sundresses and prom dresses, rain slickers and graduation gowns, Santa outfits and Easter bonnets, Hawaiian shirts and straw hats. Her chicken followed the candidacy and election of Donald Trump; is a major Wolfpack fan; and honors local heroes, like the firefighters who kept downtown from burning in March's massive blaze. When a prankster stole her chicken recently, she found an "emergency backup chicken" immediately, and didn't miss a beat.
An animal-lover since birth, Nancy has rescued and raised a multitude of live creatures, including dogs, a wolf that thought he was a dog, horses, goats, and even a donkey. As a child in elementary school, she says she was a repository for all manner of unwanted animals – a convenient adopter of ferrets and hamsters whose owners were not up to the task of daily pet care.
Nancy has always lived with love and energy to spare. She has served on the boards of directors for the SPCA and the N.C. State College of Veterinary Medicine, and volunteered perpetually for Love Wins Ministries.
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The simple carbohydrates are the sugars just mentioned: glucose, fructose, and galactose, either singly or paired with glucose. In contrast, the complex carbohydrates contain many glucose units and a few other monosaccharides strung together as polysaccharides. Three are important in nutrition: glycogen, starches, and fibers.
Glycogen is a storage form of energy in the animal body; starches play that role in plants; and the fibers of plants serve as structural elements in stems, trunks, roots, leaves, and skins. Both glycogen and starch are built of glucose units, but they are linked together differently. The fibers are composed of a variety of mono-saccharides and other carbohydrate derivatives.
Glycogen is found only to a limited extent in meats and not at all in plants.* For this reason, glycogen is not a significant food source of carbohydrate, but it does perform an important role in the body. The human body stores much of its glucose as glycogen—many glucose molecules linked together in highly branched chains (see the left side of Figure 4-8). This arrangement permits rapid hydrolysis.
*Glycogen in animal muscles rapidly hydrolyzes after slaughter.
Fruits package their simple sugars with fibers, vitamins, and minerals, making them a sweet and healthy snack.
polysaccharide: many monosaccharides linked together.
saccharide = sugar glycogen (GLY-co-gen): an animal polysaccharide composed of glucose; it is manufactured and stored in the liver and muscles as a storage form of glucose. Glycogen is not a significant food source of carbohydrate and is not counted as one of the complex carbohydrates in foods.
A glycogen molecule contains hundreds A starch molecule contains hundreds of glucose molecules in either of glucose units in long, highly branched occasionally branched chains (amylopectin) or unbranched chains chains. (amylose).
Major sources of starch include grains, legumes, and tubers (such as potatoes, yams, and cassava).
starches: plant polysaccharides composed of glucose.
fibers: in plant foods, the nonstarch polysaccharides that are not digested by human digestive enzymes, although some are digested by GI tract bacteria; fibers include cellulose, hemicelluloses, pectins, gums, and mucilages and the nonpolysaccharides lignins, cutins, and tannins.
WHICH FOOD IS NOT A SIGNIFICANT SOURCE OF COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES?
Which complex carbohydrate is stored in the fleshy toots of plants such as potatos and yams?
Which complex carbohydrate is more highly branched?
Which complex carbohydrate is stored in the fleshy roots of plants such as potatoes and yams?
What form is carbohydrate stored in yam?


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IHLC Manuscript Collections Database Tinkham, Charles Johnston (...
Tinkham, Charles Johnston (1825-1891). Notebook, Receipts, 1856, 1865 | Illinois History and Lincoln Collections
Title: Tinkham, Charles Johnston (1825-1891). Notebook, Receipts, 1856, 1865
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Tinkham, Charles Johnston
Champaign County (Ill.)
Vermilion County (Ill.)
This collection contains a notebook and notes used by Charles J. Tinkham of Homer, Illinois, a surveyor, civil engineer, and businessman. The notebook, evidently compiled in 1856 or 1857, and entitled Field Notes of the Original Surveys of Champaign County, Illinois, contains 102 pages of plats and 40 pages of "timber notes," covering all of Champaign and most of Vermilion Counties. (The notebook is essentially an abridged copy of the original U. S. General Land Office surveys of Champaign County which were made between 1812 and 1823.) Also in the collection are two loose pages containing plats and notes, and a tax receipt for a payment made to the Champaign County Treasurer's Office by M. D. Coffeen, Tinkham's father-in-law.
Tinkham attended West Point, came to Homer in 1850, and served in the 26th Ill. Vol. Inf. His grandson, James Tinkham Babb, gave the collection to the Library in 1950.


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Joyce J. Scott
Joyce Jane Scott was born in 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, where she lives and works. She works in many mediums including jewelry, sculpture, quilting, performance and installation. She is best-known for her intricate beadwork that she uses as a potent platform for confrontational commentary on social and political injustices.
She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1970 and an MFA from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in 1971. Her first artworks emerged in the early 1970s, which she made with her mother, renowned fiber artist and quilt maker, Elizabeth Talford Scott. Using fiber, beads, wire, thread, and other mixed media, the strands of Scott's urban, multi-ethnic African-American, female identity and experience unite in her art. She continues to push the expressive potential of beading and the medium's preconceived notions addressing themes of racism, sexism, and violence. Recently, she combined her bead practice with Murano glass, as shown in her seminal work Sex Traffic (2014), which is characteristically layered with meaning; the blown-glass totem in the shape of a musket is exaggerated by a beaded figure tied to its barrel with leather cuffs. She has held the retrospective exhibitions at The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Maryland Institute College of Art (2000); an updated, smaller solo show entitled Kickin' It with Joyce J. Scott toured ten US museums (2005- 2007); Museum of Arts and Design (2013), New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2015); was featured in Glasstress(2013), Venice; and exhibited at Philadelphia Museum of Art (2015). She received the Baker Award (2016), Baltimore, and the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship (2016).
Buddha (Wind), 2013
Hand-blown Murano glass processes with beads, wire, and thread
Buddha (Fire & Water), 2013
Glass, beads, wire, thread
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Buddha (Earth), 2013
Milk Mammy 2, 2012
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Water Mammy 1, 2012


Sylvia talks about growing up on North Hull Estate and her childhood during the Second World War including her memories of being evacuated and bombing raids. She goes on to discuss her teenage dreams of being a dressmaker, her first jobs and then meeting and courting her husband, including some details of her wedding day and the costs involved during the time of rationing.
[00:01:00] Sylvia describes the evacuation of four of her siblings to Foston on the Wolds during the Second World War the youngest of whom drowned. She was the eldest of six siblings.
[00:04:06] Sylvia recalls growing up in Hull and Cottingham, going to the Endike Picture House, street games and family life.
[00:07:24] She remembers the Doll's Hospital on Prince's Avenue corner.
[00:12:20] Sylvia describes Hull in the Blitz. She remembers sleeping in the shelter at night and going into Hull after the bombing, seeing the shops in ruins.
[00:15:42] She describes the shops and cinemas recalling The Rex on Endike Lane, Saturday cinema and seeing Flash Gordon.
[00:19:40] Sylvia talks about courting, the facts of life, romance and her first kiss. She was married in 1948 and lived with her aunt until 1951. It was 2d a head for the reception and her wedding dress cost £3.
[00:20:00] Sylvia describes North Hull Estate and living on 12th Avenue. She remembers the Greenwood pub. Her husband passed away the day it was closed.
[00:30:00] She talks about travel and expectations. Her skills in dressmaking and knitting. Holidays.
[00:38:09] Sylvia concludes that Hull is a great place to live with good people.


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Anita Hill, Dems Slam GOP for Rushing Inquiry Into Christine Blasey Ford's Assault Claim
By Silicon Valley Newsroom / September 18, 2018 7
Palo Alto professor Christine Blasey Ford (left) went public this week with her claim that Brett Kavanagh assaulted her 36 years ago.
Christine Blasey Ford, the Stanford-affiliated Palo Alto professor accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanagh of sexually assaulting her when they were in high school, reportedly has yet to confirm she will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to the panel's Republican chairman.
"We have reached out to her in the last 36 hours three or four times by email and we have nor heard from them," Sen. Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, told conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt Tuesday morning. "So it kind of raises the question, do they want to come to the public hearing or not?"
Law professor Anita Hill, who testified in 1991 about alleged sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings, slammed the GOP for rushing the process. In an op-ed published Tuesday in the New York Times, she called the hasty scheduling "discouraging" and unlikely to result in a "meaningful inquiry."
All 10 Democratic members of the 21-member Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee echoed Hill's concerns in a joint statement Tuesday. Ford went public with her story just two days ago and Republicans scheduled a hearing for next Monday without even confirming her availability on that date, the committee's ranking Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote in a news release signed by senators Patrick Leahy, Richard Durbin, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Christopher Coons, Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono, Cory Booker and Kamala Harris.
"Now, just two days after Dr. Blasey Ford shared her story with the public, Republicans are again rushing forward with a hearing within a week," they wrote. "This time, they are doing so without demanding the FBI perform a background investigation like it did in 1991. As you know, the FBI is not being asked to perform a criminal investigation; rather it is being asked to do an evaluation of the allegations as part of its review of Judge Kavanaugh's record. Like in 1991, this is an important step in providing the committee the facts. In this case, it is particularly important as there have been press reports about a polygraph test, medical records, and multiple witnesses."
Further, they added, Republicans are only inviting Kavanagh and Ford to testify instead of inviting other relevant witnesses, including Mark Judge, who was identified by Ford as present at the time of the alleged assault.
"Chairman Grassley today said there would be only two witnesses invited to testify at the Kavanaugh hearing next week on sexual assault allegations," Feinstein said in a separate statement Tuesday. "Compare that to the 22 witnesses at the 1991 Anita Hill hearing and it's impossible to take this process seriously."
Ford alleges that Kavanagh drunkenly held her down on a bed and attempted to take her clothes off when they were both in high school in the 1980s. She says Kavanagh's friend, Judge, was in the room, too, and jumped on them both.
Kavanagh—President Donald Trump's second pick for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court—denies the allegation. As does Judge. The Judiciary Committee was set to vote on Kavanagh's confirmation this week until Ford went public with her accusation.
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George Sep 18, 2018 @ 1:06 pm
Ford lied. That's why this allegation wasn't put forth until the confirmation vote was imminent. People aren't stupid; they see what democrats are trying to do. It won't work of course.
FE0017 Sep 22, 2018 @ 5:24 pm
The thought of having a supreme court justice with this sexual behavior history is a prediction of free pass for pedophiles and rapists receiving leniency of supreme level! Sexually perverted men as justices are a serious threat for women and children safety independently of their political affiliation. These sexual perversions and pedophilia are non-discriminatory conditions affecting men of all social economic status and creeds. Enough with rape culture mentality! GO CHRISTINE!
David S. Wall Sep 18, 2018 @ 1:57 pm
The Attorney for Dr. Ford is valiantly trying to "limit the scope" of questions which will compel her client to answer truthfully.
If the Attorney fails in her attempt to ."limit the scope" of the questions, which will compel her client to answer truthfully and then subjects Dr. Ford to the Republican controlled Senate Judiciary Committee; this Attorney will certainly imperil Dr. Ford to endure myriad of indefensible and inescapable positions.
It is unlikely Dr. Ford will testify absent the aforementioned "limitations" designed by her Attorney.
David S. Wall
SAN JOSE OUTSIDE THE BUBBLE Sep 18, 2018 @ 3:34 pm
> Ford alleges that Kavanagh drunkenly held her down on a bed and attempted to take her clothes off when they were both in high school in the 1980s.
Well, whatever happened, the offended party should have complained to the appropriate authorities at the time of the incident.
The appropriate authorities would then have been able to conduct an appropriate investigation adhering to due process of law and respecting the rights of all involved.
The confirmation hearings of the United States Senate are NOT a forum for investigating or adjudicating criminal complaints, and the Senate is not charged with or capable of providing "due process."
Senator Feinstein should be told that she is out of order and disciplined by the Senate.
In my opinion, Feinstein's conduct is so egregious that she should be expelled from the Senate.
> By Silicon Valley Newsroom
By the way, Mr. Newsroom, I suspect that if SJI checked it's photo archives for Michele Landis Dauber and the Judge Persky recall, you would probably find pictures of Christine Blasey Ford.
You might even find pictures of her holding a "recall Persky" sign or wearing a vagina hat.
Here you go again Bubble. Is Michele Dauber the woman you wish to have in bed at night? You have sick fixation with her.
Christine, women in Santa Clara county have your back and believe you. Do not fear this rape culture mentality.
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AMA campaign to clear the haze around driving while high
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Published Tuesday, September 25, 2018 11:31AM MDT
Last Updated Tuesday, September 25, 2018 1:31PM MDT
A video produced by the Alberta Motor Association for its new cannabis campaign shows a young woman sitting on a couch when her phone begins to vibrate.
The conversation goes like this:
"Hi… Seriously? No, no, I'll come get you. Is that mom?" she asks.
Chuckling, she then says, "Yeah, Dad, we can get chicken nuggets. 'Kay, I'll see you in a few."
As she leaves to pick up her presumably high parents, words appear on the screen: "More millennials have been designated drivers than any generation. When cannabis is legal, let's follow their lead."
That video, along with others, pictures, and even an interactive quiz, is all part of a new campaign by the Alberta Motor Association designed to clear the haze around cannabis use and driving.
"Only half of Canadians who use the drug believe it affects driving performance. In fact, many people think the drug improves a driver's ability behind the wheel," the AMA said in a statement.
"These persisting myths and misconceptions simply can't go unchecked."
The AMA launched the campaign Tuesday, in partnership with the NAIT Students' Association and Alberta Students' Executive Council.
"If you're high, don't get behind the wheel," said Jeff Kasbrick, vice president of the AMA's government and stakeholder relations. "Cannabis affects your reaction time, attention span, coordination and decision-making—virtually everything that's required to drive. The facts are clear: driving high is driving impaired, and it's just not worth the risk."
In the National Cannabis Survey by Statistics Canada, approximately 1.4 million Canadians reported they had been a passenger in a vehicle driven by someone who had consumed cannabis in the last two hours.
One in seven users reported they had driven within two hours of using the drug in the last three months.
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Desde él se divisa una magnífica vista de las Catedrales. Insensible al paso de los siglos, este robusto puente surca el río Tormes. Tiene quince arcos reconstruido en el S. XVII, dañado por las crecidas del río. Forma parte de la Calzada romana de la Plata, que unía Mérida con Astorga. Junto al puente se aprecia la figura de un verraco ibérico (cerdo semental) ver fotografía, representante del arte prerromano salmantino, de origen celta (prehistórico) y que está incluido sobre el escudo de la ciudad.
From here, there is an excellent view of the Cathedrals. Unaltered by the passing of time, this strong bridge stand above the Tormes River. It has 15 arches reconstructed in the 17th cent. due to the damages caused by the river floodings; it was part of the Roman road that connected Merida with Astorga. Next to the bridge there is an Iberian verraco (male pig) that is seen in this picture, representing the pre-Roman Salmantine art, of Celtic origin and that is portrayed over the shield of the city.
There exists a newer bridge, constructed at the beginning of our century, in honor of the one constructed 19 centuries ago, on which a poster announced: "Attention, Trucks over 18 tons use the Roman Bridge."


NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that its board of directors has declared a first quarter 2019 common stock dividend of $0.42 per share. The dividend will be payable on March 13, 2019, to shareholders of record as of Feb. 5, 2019.
This release may contain or refer to forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements give expectations or forecasts of the future using terms such as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," "will," and other terms tied to future periods. Results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and expectations. They involve risks and uncertainties, including the "Risk Factors" MetLife, Inc. describes in its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The company has no obligation to correct or update any forward-looking statement.


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The Providence Steamrollers were a Basketball Association of America team based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of 2023, the Steamrollers were the last professional sports franchise from one of the Big Four leagues to be based in Rhode Island.

Franchise history
The Steamrollers were one of the original eleven NBA franchises (when the league was called the Basketball Association of America).  The franchise posted an all-time record of 46–122 (.274) before folding after three seasons.

The Steamrollers still hold the dubious NBA record for the fewest games won in a season with six, in the 1947–48 season. However, the 2011–2012 Charlotte Bobcats hold the record for the lowest winning percentage in NBA history, with .106.  During that 1947–48 season, the Steamrollers' coach Nat Hickey activated himself as a player for two games, the second of which was two days before his 46th birthday, setting a still-standing record as the oldest player in NBA history.

Players of note
 Ernie Calverley – Second-team All-NBA and led league in assists during NBA's first season
 George Nostrand – Tallest player in the NBA's first year
 Howie Shannon – Leading NBA rookie in 1949
 Nat Hickey – Oldest player in NBA history
 Kenny Sailors – Led team in scoring in 1948 and 1949

Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

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Coaches and others
Robert Morris (1946–47)
Hank Soar (1947–48)
Nat Hickey (1948)
Ken Loeffler (1948–49)

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Santorini is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 120 miles southeast of Greece's mainland, re-imagined in Le Cadeaux's durable melamine dinnerware. Whether celebrating a seafood dinner or just using for the cottage, this seaside dinnerware is made for inside or el fresco dining. Comes in both solids and pattern. Both unbreakable and dishwasher safe.


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Q: Computing conditional expectations
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Conditional Expectation / Estimator Confusion

Let $X_1, X_2, X_3 \sim N(0, d^2)$ and $T = X_1^2 + X_2^2 + X_3^2.$
I have an estimator for $d$, $$\hat{d} = \frac{\sqrt{T\ 2\pi}}{4},$$
and another estimator for $d$, $$\tilde{d} = \frac{1}{3} \sqrt{\pi / 2}\ \left(|X_1| + |X_2| + |X_3|\right).$$
I need to show that $\mathbb{E}(\tilde{d} | T) = \hat{d}$ and that $\mathbb{E}(|X_1| | T) = \frac{1}{2} \sqrt{T}$.
I'm mostly confused about how to proceed with the algebra to compute the expectations.  I have never had to compute E[estimator | something] before

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US ArmyU.S. Army Reserve Pvt. Kenneth Collins, 376th Engineer Firefighter Detachment, pulls himself from a confined space familiarization tube at Combat Support Training Exercise (CSTX) 86-18-02 at Fort McCoy, Wis., August 13, 2018.
A space is confined if it has a limited or restricted entry or exit point.
"Confined spaces include, but are not limited to, tanks, vessels, silos, storage bins, hoppers, vaults, pits, manholes, tunnels, equipment housings, ductwork, pipelines, etc.," according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
And the US military trains for all different kinds of scenarios in such spaces.
The main reason the military conducts confined space training is for rescues, oftentimes a fellow service member who may become trapped while doing some kind of maintenance.
US Air ForceAir Force Joseph Chavez from the 120th Airlift Wing, Montana Air National Guard performs a confined space rescue on Feb. 13, 2017.
Such as a fellow airman working on an aircraft.
US Air ForceSenior Airman Jada Lutsky, a fuel system specialist with Pennsylvania Air National Guard, dons a respirator during a confined spaces rescue exercise on Feb. 24, 2018.
Sometimes they have to be tethered into the confined space.
DoDMembers of the 911th Technical Rescue Engineer Company enter a manhole and extract simulated patients during a training exercise on August 1, 2018.
Military firefighter units often train for such confined space scenarios.
US ArmyArmy Spc. Ridwan Salaudeen, 758th Firefighter Detachment, climbs through a confined space at Fort McCoy, Wis. on August 9, 2017.
Service members even train in building collapse simulators.
US ArmyAn Army Reserve soldier navigates his way through a building collapse simulator at Fort McCoy, Wis. on August 13, 2018.
US Marine CorpsMarine Cpl. Seth White, a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defence specialist, crawls through an underground tunnel while wearing a Level-C hazmat suit on Oct. 3, 2018.
This variety of confined spaces training scenarios give troops experience in how to read site maps and determine what kind of equipment and procedures to use.
US ArmyArmy Reserve Spc. Alex Thompson, 376th Engineer Firefighter Detachment, crawls through a tube for training at Fort McCoy, Wis. on August 13, 2018.
But first they have to get used to the confined spaces.
US ArmyArmy Reserve Brett Lehmann, 376th Engineer Firefighter Detachment, crawls through a tube for confined space familiarization training at Fort McCoy, Wis. on August 13, 2018.
And the whole thing seems pretty gruelling.
US ArmyArmy Reserve Pvt. Kenneth Collins, 376th Engineer Firefighter Detachment, pulls himself from a confined space familiarization tube at Fort McCoy, Wis. on August 13, 2018.


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The Suckers at the Investment Table
If you cannot spot the fish in your first half hour at the table, then you are the fish.
Michael McDermott, from the movie "Rounders," played by Matt Damon
New research confirms that institutional investors, such as mutual funds, outperform the market before fees, and they do so at the expense of retail investors. That is bad news for retail investors and for investors in active mutual funds, who underperform after fees.
A large body of evidence, including studies such as "Mutual Fund Performance: An Empirical Decomposition into Stock-Picking Talent, Style, Transactions Costs, and Expenses," "Asset Managers: Institutional Performance and Factor Exposures," "Yes, Virginia, there are Superstar Money Managers" and "Behavioral Biases in the Corporate Bond Market," has found that institutional investors (such as mutual funds) have sufficient stock-picking skills to generate gross alpha – the stocks and bonds they buy go on to outperform and their sales go on to underperform (before fees). Given that outperformance is a zero-sum game in terms of gross returns, those institutional investors must be exploiting some other group of investors who are generating negative alphas even before considering investment expenses.
These findings are entirely consistent with those from research on the performance of retail investors, including "The Behavior of Individual Investors" and "Industry-Based Style Investing." The research finds that the stocks and bonds individual investors buy go on to underperform and the ones they sell go on to outperform – demonstrating that retail investors are "dumb money." The study "Attention Induced Trading and Returns: Evidence from Robinhood Users" found this to be especially true when retail investors "herd."
Junqing Kang and Shen Lin contribute to the literature on the performance of institutional versus retail investors with their August 2021 study, "Spot Fishes at the Table: Tracking Retail Investors and Mutual Funds Return." Their focus was on how institutional investors deliver excess returns in the Chinese stock market. Through characterizing trading synchronicity (the coincidental occurrence of events) between mutual funds and retail flows, they studied the asset-pricing implication of mutual funds' ability to track retail investors. They used stocks' shareholder numbers (SHG) to measure the flows of small retail investors and constructed two intermediate measures based on the correlation between growth of SHG and either the holding (i.e., quarterly holding-based synchronicity, HSQ) or trading (i.e., quarterly trading-based synchronicity, TSQ) of mutual funds. They defined trading synchronicity (holding against retail investors, or HARI; and trading against retail investors, or TARI) by negative value of moving average of either HSQ or TSQ over a four-quarter rolling window.
Their data sample included daily and monthly transaction data, quarterly accounting and shareholder information for all common stocks traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Since the shareholder numbers of stocks were first disclosed in the first quarter of 2003, the sample period was 2003-2020. The variables they analyzed included market beta, market equity, value, institutional ownership, abnormal analysis coverage, stock price, abnormal news, top 10 abnormal daily volume, top 10 daily return, quarterly return and idiosyncratic volatility. Following is a summary of their findings:
Some mutual funds track retail investor trades and then exploit the cash flow information, trading against them, to deliver excess returns.
SHG negatively predicted future returns.
Funds with low trading synchronicity significantly outperform other funds with high trading synchronicity.
There was a stronger negative relationship between TARI and opposite trading among stocks with a higher liquidity.
Both HARI and TARI positively predicted mutual funds return: The long-short portfolio earned a CAPM alpha of 4.1% per year for HARI and 2.2% per year for TARI. After adjusting for four factor exposures (market beta, size, value and abnormal turnover), both HARI and TARI earned annualized excess returns above 4%, with t-statistics above 2.6.
Their findings were robust to different weighting schedules, subsamples and rebalancing schedules.
Their findings led Kang and Lin to conclude that by exploiting the irrational behaviors of retail investors, institutional funds obtain excess gross returns. Unfortunately for fund investors, the same large body of evidence demonstrates that while mutual funds generate gross alpha, their total expenses exceed gross alpha, resulting in negative alphas for their investors. For example, Russ Wermers, author of the study, "Mutual Fund Performance: An Empirical Decomposition into Stock-Picking Talent, Style, Transactions Costs, and Expenses," found that on a risk-adjusted basis, the stocks active managers selected outperformed their benchmark by 0.7% per year. However, their total expenses – not just the fund's expense ratio, but trading costs and the cost of holding cash as well – more than eroded the benefits derived from their stock-selection skills, leaving investors with net negative alphas. What economists call the "economic rent" was going to the scarce resource (the ability to generate alpha), not to the plentiful resource (investor capital). That occurred, just as economic theory predicted.
Investor takeaway
Warren Buffett famously warned investors that if you cannot value businesses "far better than Mr. Market, you don't belong in the game. As they say in poker, 'If you've been in the game 30 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.'" The evidence makes clear that, on average, the patsies are retail investors. That makes trying to outperform the market through individual security selection or market timing a loser's game for individual investors – just like at the roulette wheel, while it's possible to win, the odds are so poor that you shouldn't play. However, it's also a loser's game for actively managed fund investors.
The evidence from the annual S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) Scorecard, which compares the performance of actively managed equity mutual funds to their appropriate index benchmarks, shows that regardless of the asset class, year after year a large majority of actively managed mutual funds underperform and that there is little to no persistence of outperformance beyond the randomly expected. In addition, studies such as "The Selection and Termination of Investment Management Firms by Plan Sponsors" have found that while pension plan sponsors hire investment managers after those managers earn large positive excess returns up to three years prior to hiring, post-hiring excess returns are indistinguishable from zero; and if plan sponsors had stayed with the fired investment managers, their returns would have improved. In other words, while fund managers have sufficient skill to exploit retail investors and generate alpha, they don't have sufficient skill to overcome all their costs. Thus, fund investors are the losers in that game of active investing, and the fund sponsors are the winners.
Larry Swedroe is the chief research officer for Buckingham Strategic Wealth and Buckingham Strategic Partners.
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import { string } from './string/StringValidator';
import { email } from './string/EmailValidator';
import { number } from './number/NumberValidator';
import { object } from './object/ObjectValidator';

const asyncValidatorFunction = jest
  .fn()
  .mockImplementation((v) => Promise.resolve(v));

const schema = {
  username: string()
    .notEmpty()
    .min(3)
    .max(10)
    .match(/^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-]*$/),
  password: string().min(6).label('Password'),
  email: email(),
  age: number().min(18).optional()
};

const asyncSchema = {
  ...schema,
  email: email().custom(asyncValidatorFunction)
};

const validator = object().schema(schema);
const asyncValidator = object().schema(asyncSchema);

describe('schema validation', () => {
  it('is valid with a valid user', () => {
    const result = validator.validate({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(true);
  });

  it('is valid without a optional field', () => {
    const result = validator.validate({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com'
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(true);
  });

  it('is invalid when a required field is missing', () => {
    const result = validator.validate({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('base.required');
    expect(error.field).toBe('Password');
  });

  it('is invalid when an optional field has an invalid value', () => {
    const result = validator.validate({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 17
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('number.min');
    expect(error.field).toBe('age');
  });

  it('is invalid when one field is invalid', () => {
    const result = validator.validate({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'my',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('string.min');
    expect(error.field).toBe('Password');
  });

  it('is invalid when more fields are invalid', () => {
    const result = validator.validate({
      username: 'Barry_127!',
      password: 'my',
      email: 'my!email',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(3);

    const [e1, e2, e3] = result.errors!;
    expect(e1.type).toBe('string.match');
    expect(e1.field).toBe('username');

    expect(e2.type).toBe('string.min');
    expect(e2.field).toBe('Password');

    expect(e3.type).toBe('email.email');
    expect(e3.field).toBe('email');
  });

  it('is invalid when a key not defined in schema', () => {
    const result = validator.validate({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18,
      extraField: 3
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('object.notinschema');
    expect(error.field).toBe('extraField');
  });

  it('does not validate schema, when another validation function has failed and abortEarly is true', () => {
    const validator = object().schema(schema).min(2);
    const result = validator.validate({ a: 1 });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('object.min');
  });

  it('throws an error when a validator is async', () => {
    expect(
      asyncValidator.validate.bind(asyncValidator, {
        username: 'Barry_127',
        password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
        email: 'my@email.com',
        age: 18
      })
    ).toThrow(Error);
  });
});

describe('async schema validation', () => {
  it('is valid with a valid user', async () => {
    const result = await asyncValidator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(true);
  });

  it('is valid without a optional field', async () => {
    const result = await asyncValidator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com'
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(true);
  });

  it('is invalid when a required field is missing', async () => {
    const result = await asyncValidator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('base.required');
    expect(error.field).toBe('Password');
  });

  it('is invalid when an optional field has an invalid value', async () => {
    const result = await asyncValidator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 17
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('number.min');
    expect(error.field).toBe('age');
  });

  it('is invalid when one field is invalid', async () => {
    const result = await asyncValidator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'my',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('string.min');
    expect(error.field).toBe('Password');
  });

  it('is invalid when more fields are invalid', async () => {
    const result = await asyncValidator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127!',
      password: 'my',
      email: 'my!email',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(3);

    const [e1, e2, e3] = result.errors!;
    expect(e1.type).toBe('string.match');
    expect(e1.field).toBe('username');

    expect(e2.type).toBe('string.min');
    expect(e2.field).toBe('Password');

    expect(e3.type).toBe('email.email');
    expect(e3.field).toBe('email');
  });

  it('is invalid when a key not defined in schema', async () => {
    const result = await asyncValidator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18,
      extraField: 3
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('object.notinschema');
    expect(error.field).toBe('extraField');
  });

  it('does not validate schema, when another validation function has failed and abortEarly is true', async () => {
    const validator = object().schema(asyncSchema).min(2);
    const result = await validator.validateAsync({ a: 1 });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('object.min');
  });

  it('is valid with a complete sync schema', async () => {
    const result = await validator.validateAsync({
      username: 'Barry_127',
      password: 'mySuperSecretPassword',
      email: 'my@email.com',
      age: 18
    });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(true);
  });

  it('validates async when no schema is set', async () => {
    const validator = object().min(2);
    const result = await validator.validateAsync({ a: 1 });
    expect(result.valid).toBe(false);
    expect(result.errors).toHaveLength(1);

    const error = result.errors?.[0]!;
    expect(error.type).toBe('object.min');
  });
});

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Carúpano () is a diocese located in the city of Carúpano in the Ecclesiastical province of Cumaná in Venezuela.

History
On 4 April 2000 Blessed John Paul II established the Diocese of Carúpano from the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Cumaná.

Ordinaries
Manuel Felipe Díaz Sánchez (4 Apr 2000 – 10 Dec 2008) Appointed, Archbishop of Calabozo
Jaime José Villarroel Rodríguez (10 Apr 2010 – present)

See also
Roman Catholicism in Venezuela

References

External links
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic Hierarchy

Roman Catholic dioceses in Venezuela
Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Cumaná
Christian organizations established in 2000
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
2000 establishments in Venezuela


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The whole show was very inspiring. The volume, the colors, the … "thematic cohesion" of Balenciaga's work (the only think I can think to call it) were motivating. It's fascinating to see how someone plays through the variations of a couple of key ideas. Balenciaga wasn't all over the place. He put stakes in the ground, did our Cristóbal, and when he was tired he just stopped.
I could have sworn that there were some Balenciaga Vogue Couturier patterns, but the Vintage Pattern wiki only turned up . Am I hallucinating?
There's also . Although I'm slightly confused (but even more tickled!) by the blurb at the bottom of the page there, which talks about Balenciaga's "genius for fir".


The Italian carrier has taken delivery of the first of two Airbus A330 aircraft, featuring new seating in economy and business, as well as the debut of the airline's premium economy offering.
The aircraft will ply intercontinental routes from Milan Malpensa this summer, and are configured for 28 Magnifica (business) seats, 21 Classica Plus (premium economy) seats, and 175 Classica (economy) seats.
Alitalia says the new Magnifica offering features leather seats which "extend into a fully flat bed position". The layout is 1-2-1, and the seats include a 15.4-inch TV screen with 12 audio channels and 40 films, as well as privacy screens, noise reduction headsets, duvets and Frette pillows.
As reported by businesstraveller.com earlier this year (see online news March 15), the brand new Classica Plus seats recline to 120 degrees, and have around 25 per cent more space than the economy seating. Benefits of the premium economy service include priority check-in and boarding, double award miles, welcome drink and hot towel, and increased baggage allowance on flights to North America.
Finally the new Classica offering features seats reclining up to 110 degrees, with nine-inch TV screens and Frette blankets.
Alitalia says that "a reconfiguration programme of the Boeing 777 fleet is also planned which will lead a harmonization of the entire Alitalia intercontinental fleet".
For more information visit alitalia.com.


Israeli journalistic photographer Micha Bar-Am's seashore photography is a body of work that spans almost five decades. From 1957 to 2004, Bar-Am has captured photographs of historical events, studies of workers and the pleasures of living by the sea. From couples on the beach in Greece, to scarred Israeli seamen in Haifa Port, Bar-Am captures the raw immediacy of ocean life.
Bar Am established the Photography Department of Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was awarded the Israel Prize for Art in 2000. His seashore photos were exhibited at the National Maritime Museum between December 2015 and April 2016.